Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear from him "either expressions of enthusiasm or excuses"; it was "a case of getting something or taking nothing." His voice drooping, Bidault reviewed his major defeats and minor victories. He had failed to have the Ruhr cut off from Germany. He had failed to sell the French program of a loose federation of German states as the political structure of the new Germany. Worst of all, perhaps, he had failed to get sufficient guarantees for the future security of France. But to keep her stake in the game, France would have to ante up: she would have to ratify...
...summer elections of 1950. Labor could then say to the electorate: "Look, we have done as we promised." But if the Lords could hold up steel for twelve months (or any other government measure on a similar timetable), Labor might not be able to complete its program before election...
...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...
...bill also provides that the U.S. is in no way to be committed to any legislative program approved by WHO. Harness explained the congressional suspicion: "We're in there with Great Britain, Russia, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Hungary. All have some form of socialized medicine or compulsory health insurance...
...month ago, when NBC refused to give him a raise, Frank Paris, Howdy's builder and manipulator, huffed out of the studio with Puppet Howdy under his arm. For awhile, the program's fate dangled by a marionette string. But M.C. Bob Smith still owned Howdy's name and voice, and NBC still had Smith. So, while a West Coast puppetmaker hurriedly whittled a new $2,000 marionette, harried Announcer Smith fenced with his young audience and concocted desperate excuses for the puppet's absence: Howdy was invisible, he was on a "presidential campaign tour...